Interesting statistics from the players GPS trackers;
In the first game (rainy and coolest game but still hotter than NZ summer) Max Drake apparently ran ~11.4 km, he regularly does over 10km.
Against PNG (probably hottest game) he managed ~8.4, indicative of how energy sapping the heat and humidity was.
Meanwhile, in the final Oskar van Hattum apparently ran a 33.4km/h sprint, which if accurate would have put him 7th in Russia2018
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/amp/football/fifa-reveal-20-fastest-players-summers-world-cup-167154
I doubt though that any of the players at the Russia World Cup or the OFC u-16's Honiara 2018 would better the fastest player to ever play in NZ's national league, Clem Khaiseb from Namibia, who had a world-class 100 m sprint time of 10 seconds in the mid 1990's when he represented Namibia at the World Student Games. NZ's Olympic sprinter at the time, Craig Donaldson, had a slower time!
Clem could have had an international athletics career but prefered playing football. Football in Canterbury benefited when he arrived to study agriculture at Lincoln University in the mid 1990's. His first season of winter football he scored more than 40 goals.
Went on to play for Christchurch City in the national league in the later 1990's and scored hat-tricks despite Canterbury football being in the doledrums at national league level at the time.
Clem was also one of the few (maybe the only) players from outside the OFC to be selected to play for their country at senior level on the strength of performances in NZ's national league. Debuted for Namibia I think about 1999.